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Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition Review (continued)
More User Submitted Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition Reviews
Date: 2008-06-23
The Creed
This is probably going to be similar to many other reviews out there, but this is my opinion.
Creed is very console orientated. It's selling points are it's visuals- I have a high end pc and can experience everything on full settings as smooth as silk, and it's atmosphere.
On that note, this game is perhaps best game in years to capture the atmosphere and 'feel' of a immersive gaming experience. It actually feels like you are walking around the Holy land, with great shadow effects and lighting. The people who move around you are the closest to actual human beings, without actually being walking digital people. Also, there are no edge effects with this. Everything is very smooth, no rock face is spoiled by a jutting graphic triangle or polygon.
The gameplay is far more simple than I expected, going on what others have spoken of. I can run up to a building, and infact climb and leap over buildings very easily. I think the only real issue is dropping from the hanging position, but that's just experimentation with keys (I'm PC version). Altir is an incredible acrobat and his motoions are some of the best I have yet seen. Having Altir climb and scale walls and buildings is perhaps the games most impressive feat. Dust and small stones fall away under his feet and as you move the camera around him, whether suspended or still moving you can view the people moving below him. That is the shiny end of the coin.
I enjoy the combat system, being able to engage multiple opponants in a realistic manner is fun. Three on one is far more exciting than one on one.
The cons. . well, there is not much in the way of interraction in the game. Sure, you speak to people, but it's not open ended, it's all mission and side mission based. Saving citizens from the guards to give scholar and vigilante aid is fine, but it gets a little bit silly after a while. YOu don't really want to jump down from up high to save somebody just to have some vigilantes appear that you really don't need just to have to climb back up again. Also, it defeats the purpose of stealth and unseen death when you slay guards, to evade them again and carry on like nothing happened. There is not much to 'chew on' in terms of story and side mission. I would love to be able to have a RP element. To perhaps drag your dead into dark corners, barrels, through open doorways. I would like to be able to purchase items from the market vendors, perhaps getting a better blade or having my blade sharpened .. simple details. Can you imagine something as applaudably immersive as Creed combined with something like Oblivion, the RP extravaganza? Creed innovates in a way that paves the way forward for future releases.
The last but not least of the 'issues' with Creed is that it is difficult to exit the game. You have to leave the memory, have your other character get off the table, then quite to the menu, select the name of your saved data and then exit .. that's far too overly complicated.
My advice, get this one in used condition or on sale. It's not that it's not great value for money, but Oblivion cost roughly the same amount and there was far more to experience with it.
It's certainly a worthwhile experience for a gamer, you will spend time marvelling at details and hunting for your next 'job' whilst enjoying the detailed vistas of the far East- get it if not for the experience of moving through the detailed towns and cities.
Three and a half out of five overall.
Date: 2008-06-19
Amazing Game
Assassin's Creed is a very fun play but it does have some pros and cons. Here is my list.
Pros:
Easy to learn controls
Fun fights
Good chase scenes
The freedom to do what ever you want
Realistic crowd and soilder reactions
Fun story line
Assianations are fun and challenging
Cons:
It is very routine
After mastering counter running is no longer needed after an assianation
Travling from city to city is boring
Guards will become very easy to kill after you gain rank 2 or 3
The secret character seems pointless
Getting to an assianation is only fun the first or second time
That is my review I would recomend buying the game for it is realy fun despite the cons.
Date: 2008-06-18
Can't shake it's ugly console past
I heard about this game being on consoles a while ago but ignored it since I don't do consoles. When I heard that it was out on the PC I thought I'd give my new 9800GTX video card a good work out and picked it up.
It would be hard for me to be more disappointed in this game. The interface is immediately and noticeably the very thing I loath about consoles; a kludge of menus that could be one simple menu if they were designed to be used with a keyboard or mouse instead of a limited device like a game pad. That alone made it hard to continue, but I tried to get past that and tried to get into the game.
The game's next huge failing is the lame setup and plot line. I bought the game thinking it was either history based or fantasy based, but the game actually uses some lame Virtual Reality cover story to validate it's linear game play and confined world. It also attempts to add in some kind penalty for "bad" behavior even though it's a game about assassinating people. Sorry, you can't have your cake and eat it too. For a game about assassination I was expecting a lot more violence and gore; I'm 33 I can handle it.
Pros-
The graphics are very impressive. The textures and modeling are top notch even though you still see some puppet like movement during the dialog cut-screens.
Ran without issues on my Intel E6600 C2D system with 2gb of RAM and the 9800GTX VGA card.
Cons-
Bad, made-for-consoles menu system and interface.
Lame setup that is almost insulting.
A game with the word 'Assassin' in it should have a higher body count.
I couldn't stomach it enough to keep playing it, but the friend I gave it away to said it's also really short.
Conclusion -
Nice eye candy but not enough to keep me from ditching this game and regret the money I spent on it. If you want to try it for your self wait until it's in the clearance bin.
Date: 2008-06-13
Great Game
...I certainly hope there's a sequel in the making because the ending was left off really unclear and unfinished. Other than that, great fun game! Good unique story!
Date: 2008-06-02
Great gameplay and graphics!
First off, I have a high-end machine courtesy of pcgamer mag's dream system specs, so no problems there. Plus I have wide screen monitors which I heartily recommend. I actually was able to play this on high settings very nicely, whereas Crysis had to be lowered for it to look good on my rig.
I found using my logitech gamepad the way to go w/ this game, the keyboard/mouse was not as nice for me.
The voice acting and cut scenes are enjoyable, and in particular I really liked how you switch between the present and the past. In the present you have a meglomaniac yelling at you to get back into the machine, and once in the machine of course you take out all your anger on your targets.
The fighting is fun to play once you get a handle on the counter-moves. The sound effects during battle are excellent, and the various moves you can pull off are always fun to watch.
The cons for me are:
- can't easily exit the game
- can't skip cut scenes even after you've seen them already before
- the ending battle is ridiculously impossible! It took me something like 10 hours of attempts to finish that end battle. So the good news is you can eventually do it :)
The end of the game leaves you hanging and wanting more, so I am definitely awaiting the sequel.
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